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Prices for lower-cost groceries in the UK have not risen faster than average food prices, the National Statistics Office said on Monday in a new experimental survey. The statistics agency was driven by the anti-poverty action Jack Monroe, who complained in January that supermarkets were raising the cost of value brands more than general inflation. …

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An astrophotographer has captured a 286 megapixel image of the sun during the most intense period of solar activity in decades. The image shows huge fireballs circulating on the surface of the sun and can be magnified to see the entire burning mass in extreme detail. Andrew McCarthy, known to his online followers as @ …

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Conservative employees have been pressured not to sign a letter calling for tighter controls on those who want to become MPs in light of the current “pestminster” scandal, Sky News may reveal. The letter, organized by Angus McVean and Henry Dixon-Clegg, is addressed to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Conservative Party President Oliver Dowden and House …

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Todd Boehly has vowed to build on Chelsea’s “extraordinary success story” after the US consortium completed its takeover of the club for £ 4.25bn on Monday. A new era at Stamford Bridge is underway after Roman Abramovich accepted the UK government’s terms of sale. Chelsea described the deal as unprecedented in speed, saying the deal …

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Conservative MPs are denying the loss of the next general election and are caught up in the “Stockholm Syndrome” with Boris Johnson, a senior MP has warned. Tobias Ellwood said the Conservatives were in a “difficult position” as he urged his colleagues to remove their leader’s psychological dependence after Sue Gray’s Partygate report. “The party …

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A road in north Manchester was recorded this afternoon after a collision between a police car and a double-decker bus. Fernclough Road was closed after the collision, prompting emergency services to approach the scene. According to police, a police officer was taken to hospital with minor injuries. A total of nine people were checked by …

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A a man disguised as an elderly woman in a wheelchair has thrown a cake at the Mona Lisa, at a time described as “amazing” by witnesses. Leonardo da Vinci’s famous painting was unharmed in the incident at the Louvre in Paris on Sunday, as the attack left a stain of white cream on its …

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The political art of stabbing in the back is a complex and often confusing topic of discussion. For example, in the Conservative Party, where the hard and fast rules on how to oust a leader are found in black and white in the party’s rule book, conspiring to overthrow a leader is an accepted and …

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Russia faces localized riots, lack of experienced commanders and poor morale as Moscow enters the third month of its war with Ukraine, the Defense Ministry (MOD) has said. Russia has suffered “devastating losses among its middle and lower-ranking officers,” the Defense Ministry said, and the army had no highly trained officers as a result. These …

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